> >> Is this a known issue, or my "tar" install is wrong? > > yes it is known.. > i had to install 7z support for tar. > this is because MacOS is number of years behind the most recent release of > tar, > which supports 7z compressing by default :)
so that has to be installed on OSX or not? If we should update the HOWTOBUILD accordingly? > And with your config, i am not sure that default MacOS installation > having unxz utility installed. > If yes, then , of course it makes sense to change config to what is > proposed by you. > And if not, then it is better to leave a note in class & methods > comments to indicate that people should > install more recent tar utility.
